gh-142236: Fix incorrect keyword suggestions for syntax errors #142328
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The keyword typo suggestion mechanism in traceback would incorrectly suggest replacements when the extracted source code was merely incomplete rather than containing an actual typo. For example, when a missing comma caused a syntax error, the system would suggest replacing 'print' with 'not' because the incomplete code snippet happened to pass validation. The fix adds a validation step that first checks whether the original extracted code raises a SyntaxError. If the code compiles successfully or is simply incomplete (compile_command returns None), the function returns early since there is no way to verify that a keyword replacement would actually fix the problem.
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The keyword typo suggestion mechanism in traceback would incorrectly
suggest replacements when the extracted source code was merely incomplete
rather than containing an actual typo. For example, when a missing comma
caused a syntax error, the system would suggest replacing 'print' with
'not' because the incomplete code snippet happened to pass validation.
The fix adds a validation step that first checks whether the original
extracted code raises a SyntaxError. If the code compiles successfully
or is simply incomplete (compile_command returns None), the function
returns early since there is no way to verify that a keyword replacement
would actually fix the problem.